Media and Culture

I’ve been struck by what a lost treasure is Essential of Economics by Faustino Ballve.

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A commentator on this blog draws our attention to this piece on the site Ret

A friend of mine--very smart friend--bought all four Garrett novels and he has been reading them one at a time.

The NYT offers a solution to the drug pr

Child-labor laws were and are a blow against the freedom to work and a boost in government authority over the family.

There is this term in the software world: upgrade. You think it might mean upgrade but it doesn’t necessarily.

Policies such as the ban on interest-paying banks incentivize further reckless behavior by users who have made foolish decisions, and they frustrate and hinder the entrepreneurs who are producing the goods that attract people to Second Life.

The new banking policy in Second Life has strong parallels to the adoption of 19th-century banking regulations in the real world.

Taking the counterfeiters money is not wrong, but when the women started spending the money, as Lew Rockwell points out, that's "another matter, of course, as it imitates on a tiny scale what the Fed does, and dilutes the value of other people's money."